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Saturday, April 24, 2010

There's a Whole Lotta White Het Male Supremacy Going On... as usual, but some of it is making the news these days

So as if it's not enough for whites to discriminate, abuse, exploit, and stigmatise Latina/os, and Chicana/os specifically as "illegal immigrants" and "undocumented workers" and terms far more vile than those. As if it's not enough that whites are in this country illegally and always have been aliens here. As if it's not enough that white het male supremacyhas never not been the ruling ideology in the United Rapes of Amerikkka. Anti-Chicana/o racism just got even more legal. See *here* and below.

Given how this social-political-economic system works, that also means anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry and anti-Semitism got a boost, as well as anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, and anti-Indigenous racism. Keep in mind that many Mexican Americans, and Mexicans who were annexed out of this illegal country of white alien savage thugs, are Indigenous too. And we have Kansas-based anti-lesbian and gay efforts, and the pimping of a fourteen year old girl in a strip club in Michigan. These are all parts of an ugly white het man-whole.

See this, a cross post from The Feminist Texican blog. Click on the title just below to link back.

On Friday afternoon, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the controversial SB 1070 into law. It is currently the harshest anti-immigration law in the country. The law makes it a crime to be in the country illegally, and gives police the power to question people about their immigration status.

Though Brewer does her damnedest to deny it, the bill opens the door wide open for the racial profiling of Latin@s, who comprise 30% of the state’s population. Tellingly, the LA Times notes:

[A] recent poll showed that 70% of state voters supported the measure — even though 53% said it could lead to civil rights violations. [emphasis added]

There is no higher priority than protecting the citizens of Arizona. We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.

In a country where “illegal” is a noun that’s synonymous with “Mexican” (Mexican drug cartels, Mexican border violence, border wall along Mexico, brown people swimming across the river from Mexico, etc.), I find it hard to believe that racial profiling rates against Latin@s aren’t going to rise. I seriously doubt police are going to start asking white people for their papers at even a fraction of the rate they question brown people.

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The bolstering of WHM supremacy must delight a disproportionate number of Tea Partiers. And if the T.P.s want to claim "foul" for being lumped in with the KKK and gay-bashers and het men who go to strip clubs to watch 14 year old girls, then let's see 'em organise against misogynist pimps and racist patriarchs. "Oops", they will say, "that's not on our agenda". No, it isn't: they're too fucking busy protecting their WHM entitlements and power.

What follows next is from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Click on title to be brought back to the source page.

Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based group notorious for turning tragedies into gay-bashing opportunities, is pretty much universally reviled. Even an Arizona-based Ku Klux Klan group forcefully (if ungrammatically) rejected the group in a “disclaimer” published on its website. “The Ku Klux Klan, LLC, has not or EVER will have ANY connection with The ‘Westboro Baptist Church,’” it said. “We absolutely repudiate their activities.”

Not the Dove World Outreach Center, a Gainesville, Fla., church that has used similar tactics to attack both gays and Muslims. “We support Westboro who [sic] came to Gainesville because of its ‘Gay’ reputation,” the church states on its website.

In fact, Dove became virtually the only group in the history of Westboro’s anti-gay and anti-Jewish campaigning to join forces with the Topeka, Kan., church. Dove enthusiastically took part in Westboro’s Sunday protest against Gainesville’s tolerance of homosexuality. About 30 members of Dove World Outreach Center joined fewer than 10 Westboro representatives outside Trinity United Methodist Church in Gainesville, according to the Gainesville Sun. Many of the Dove protesters wore their signature “Islam is of the Devil” T-shirts — a message they’ve also promoted on signs outside the church.

The Independent Florida Alligator, the University of Florida’s student newspaper, reported that Dove and Westboro members sang variations of “This Land is Your Land” (“This Land is Going Straight to Hell”), “I’m Proud to Be an American” (“I’m Ashamed to Be an American”) and “God Bless America” (“God Hates America”), among other tunes. “I think their church is willing to stand up for what the whole Bible says,” Dove pastor Wayne Sapp said in a video of the event shot by the Alligator. “Most churches like to preach part of the Bible. Westboro Baptist Church talks about these are things we need to turn away from: accepting homosexuality, accepting perversion, accepting adultery, accepting that that’s just how people are. That’s not the truth.”

But Dove, like Westboro, goes beyond asserting that the Bible condemns homosexuality. In March, it erected a sign outside the church that proclaimed “No Homo Mayor” — a reference to Gainesville City Commissioner Craig Lowe, who was running for mayor. (Lowe, now mayor-elect, spoke to dozens of people at a counter-protest in downtown Gainesville on Sunday.) The church later changed the sign to “No Homo” after Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy organization, complained to the Internal Revenue Service that Dove was violating the ban on political campaigning for tax-exempt groups.

For its part, Westboro — which has pilloried soldiers killed in Iraq, schoolchildren killed in bus crashes, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and others for supposedly tolerating homosexuality — is heading to Colorado tomorrow to continue its picketing. This time, presumably, it won’t have any help.

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But because that's not quite enough WHM supremacy for one period of time, we also have this, about a pimp/strip club owner who hired a fourteen year old girl to perform for men, and we also have the disgusting comments by a few pro-child sexxxploitation men. Click on title to link back.

DETROIT – The manager of a Detroit strip club was charged after authorities learned a 14-year-old girl was employed as a topless dancer, making several hundred dollars a night, authorities said Friday.

The 31-year-old manager of the All Star topless bar was arraigned Friday on a charge of child sexually abusive activity. Andrew Hutson was arrested Wednesday night at the club on Eight Mile Road. The girl, whose name was not released because of her age, is believed to have danced at the club several nights each week, making about $350 per night, Police Chief Warren Evans said at a news conference across the street from the establishment.

"It is clear that she danced there for a significant amount of time. It's clear, at least to us, that the club knew or should have known that she shouldn't be there," Evans said.

The girl's mother pulled her daughter from the club one night last week after learning she was working there. Employees of the club brought the girl out to a lobby area near the door, said her mother, whose name was withheld to protect her daughter's identity.

"Our youth are not some cheap commodity, to be used and cast aside," Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a release. "We are sending a clear message that if you hire underage women you will face criminal charges."

An elaborate sign on an outside wall of the club bills it as "The 'ALL STARS' of GENTLEMEN CLUBS." But Evans described it as a constant thorn in the sides of police.

Over the past six years, there have been 11 nonfatal shootings and three fatal shootings "related to this club," Evans said. Violations also have been found in each of the last 15 Vice Squad inspections.

The Associated Press left a message Friday seeking comment from the club's owner. Hutson was released on a personal bond Friday. The AP could not determine if he has an attorney.

Comments:

ScherzoDamn! I missed her show.

Sicko. She is a CHILD. That makes anyone a criminal who paid to see her. Keep that in mind.

The JohnOver the past six years, there have been 11 nonfatal shootings and three fatal shootings "related to this club,"

Plus, they let a 14 year old be a stripper....sounds like a real classy joint. Somebody needs to light a match in that place and be done with it. Then drag the scumbag owner behind the squad car....

[another commenter]Please, I don't agree with 14 year old strippers.....but..from 1967 - 1971 (my youth)I didn't know to many 14 -16 year old virgins....